[Today’s run: 3.24 miles]<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I finished work before the sun went down today, so I had a bit of time to work on the Aerostar. I took the modulator back out and reseated it. I don’t think that made a difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also flushed out the vacuum tube from the engine to the modulator at the transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then I took it for a test drive. Going in circle-D drive I could get it to upshift around 35 mph. But I then continued on to 55 and I could not get it to shift again. So I don’t know if my transmission is workable or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I spent a bit of time on the intake air plumbing. I was able to use some rubber sealing tape to cover two of the holes. There is a larger problem at the end of the pipe where the collar that goes on the intake has broken down almost completely. I think I am going to keep my eye out for some kind of plastic or rubber tubing that will fit inside the corrugated tube. Then I could seal them together with some of this rubber tape or use some silicone sealer. I think I should go to Lowes and check out the plumbing adapters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My next decision point is whether or not I think it is worth doing the exhaust work. I called a local guy and he estimated cat replacement would be about $400. If I get the intake sorted out, the transmission is the next big hurdle. I have to research whether the missing exhaust could keep the transmission from shifting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We don’t have car inspections in my state. So it is just a matter of putting it together in a way that meets the federal specifications. Nobody is going to do an exhaust test on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had an interesting conference call today with “external counsel” on a patent application. Something I wrote up in late 2020 has somehow been resurrected by the corporate patent approval committee. What that means is they are willing to spend the money for a lawyer to write up a patent application on our idea. This will be my 4th patent application on which I have been listed as an inventor. Of my three others<\/a>, one was shot down for prior art (someone else had something similar already) and two have been published.<\/p>\n\n\n\n That’s kind of a fun fringe benefit to get my name on such things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [Today’s run: 3.24 miles] I finished work before the sun went down today, so I had a bit of time to work on the Aerostar. I took the modulator back out and reseated it. I don’t think that made a difference. I also flushed out the vacuum tube from the engine to the modulator at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-car-project","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8692\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/w0ep.us\/OM\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}